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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:23:53 -0800 From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: rick.jones2@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net Subject: Re: ARP table question David Miller wrote: >> After some more testing, I can still get it into a bad >> state if I have a retrans timer of 1 sec and a randomness of 5 secs >> and manage to cause all 1000 arp entries to go stale at once (by >> yanking a cable, for instance). >> >> It seems I have to bump up the base timer to 3-5 seconds (I'm >> leaving the random backoff at 5 secs as well). > > This scheme still seems hackish to me, so I'm going to defer on this > for now. You think something like an exponential backoff capped at some user-configurable max-value would be better? -- Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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